Closer Than Ever continues exclusively on BroadwayHD. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Award-winning producers Ginger Quiff Media and BroadwayHD, the streaming service for live theatre, are presenting this brand-new digital revival of the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning musical revue, with music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr, from […]
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Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East Theatre
Starting Here, Starting Now continues at the Waterloo East Theatre until 18 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire are together best known as collaborators on revue show Closer Than Ever, but their history dates to their days as Yale students together. After leaving university, they […]
Big the Musical – Dominion Theatre
Big the Musical continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 2 November 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Why does the theatre think it can eclipse the success of one art form by turning it into a musical? Musical theatre shows are seldom totally original entities, but are often adaptations of […]
Baby – Drayton Arms Theatre, London
Baby continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 9 November 2018. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The musical theatre composing duo Maltby and Shire are best known for the 1989 revue Closer Than Ever, a song cycle with looks at all stages of love and romance. The composers described that […]
Closer Than Ever – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – PQA @Riddle’s Court
Closer Than Ever continues at PQA @Riddle’s Court until 27 August 2018 (not 15, 22). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ A classy visual of the cast of three men and three women all dressed in shades of grey and white sets the tone for the piece. The upstage area is used as […]
Interview – Richard Carson on his role in Closer Than Ever at The Pheasantry
Actor and singer RICHARD CARSON is soon to appear in Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire’s critically acclaimed revue Closer Than Ever (25–27 April) at The Pheasantry on London’s King’s Road. In this Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Off-Broadway Alliance Award winning companion to their hit revue Starting Here, Starting Now, Maltby and Shire […]
Starting Here, Starting Now – The Pheasantry
Starting Here, Starting Now at The Pheasantry, London continues until 20 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Three sparking talents, Sam Lupton, Carolyn Maitland and Kayleigh McKnight, turn 24 songs by Richard Maltby Jr and David Shire, not all of them by any means memorable, into a classy, polished revue at […]
Back to Back Maltby and Shire revivals at The Pheasantry
Award-winning independent theatre company Neil Eckersley Productions is to produce revivals of Maltby and Shire’s critically acclaimed revues Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever at London’s The Pheasantry next month. With lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr and music by David Shire, Starting Here, Starting Now is a chronicle of the changing emotions in romantic […]
Richard Maltby Jr – Closer Than Ever still brings surprises
Lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr. has been in London to direct a revised version of his Off-Broadway hit, Closer Than Ever (written with long-time collaborator David Shire) which has received its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. With Shire, Maltby, Jr. has also written lyrics for Starting Here, Starting Now, Baby, Closer Than Ever and the musical […]
Closer Than Ever – Richard Maltby Jr directs new production
A revised version of the Off-Broadway hit, Richard Maltby, Jr and David Shire’s Closer Than Ever, receives its European premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre (6 May–7 June 2014) in a brand new production directed by Tony Award-winning Maltby himself (Miss Saigon, Starting Here Starting Now, Ain’t Misbehavin’). The production will star Graham Bickley (Ragtime, Miss Saigon, Follies), Sophie-Louise Dann (Lend […]
